Real Estate Home Staging Blog

A staged home is much more memorable to buyers. When buyers have viewed 3, 4, 5 or more homes in one day, they all run together... It becomes confusing to remember which features they liked and disliked.. Which home had the two car garage, or which floor was the master bedroom located?? It all be...

Several recent posts about censoring and having personal posts deleted led me to investigate the question - How Does Active Rain really bring us business?? Since I am a newbie here, I really don't have any history yet so I will look to the pros here on AR for the answer.... When we develop a rel...

Wow, just found this article online about one of the new Design Star contestants.. His screen name is Mikey V on HGTV - aka Michael Verdugo.. Get this, he is a cop in Florida but also co-owns a South Florida Staging company with former realtor, David Bowles. Their company is Elite Home Stagers He...

PLEASE, please help me WELCOME a very special newcomer to AR - Pamela Patterson... I invited Pam, a Realtor from Greenville SC with Prudential C. Dan Joyner Co. to join us here and I really want to help her get excited about the "Rain"... She is a very dedicated, loyal and all around special gal ...

I am happy to announce that HGTV's series - "The Stagers" will be coming to the US.. After my blog post here about "The Stagers" featuring Dekora Home Staging from Canada we thought it was only being broadcasted on HGTV Canada. I am very grateful that Susan Stafford, a publicist was kind enough t...

Lamp, lamps and more lamps ! This is one of the many accessories that professional home stagers never seem to have enough of. Most of the homes that we provide professional staging for seem to be lacking in lamps and general lighting..  Proper lighting is one of the most important aspects of a ho...

New HGTV Series "The Stagers" Showcases one of Real Estates Fastest-Growning Trends OK - Here it is - a show all about Stagers... Here's the Link for this article. http://www.channelcanada.com/Article2229.html and the first paragraph. How does a home – on the real-estate market for months – sudde...

You guys may not be as clumsy as I am - but you probably do have a mishap now and then while staging homes... Recently, I picked up some great candle holders for a home staging project and rushed to my office to show them off... Well, in my haste - I pulled the bag out and WHAM - there they went ...

OK, here I go once again trying to do my second AR blog post..... wish me luck We staged this new construction home on a tight deadline, battling the dark and lots of construction dust but thankfully it was ready for the Open House & Lake James Home Tour. I love the details in this home and what ...

Hi to all my AR family... Even though, I am a newbie here, I feel as if I know many of you already. I have been trying to learn the ropes and I realize that we are here to share staging news, tips and info but I also know that we need to share ourselves as well.. So, one of the joys of my life ar...